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Alex Schroeder

"Marketplace Morning Report" Producer

Alex is a producer for the “Marketplace Morning Report.” He's based in Queens, New York. Alex joined Marketplace in 2020, working as MMR's digital producer. After a little over a year, he became the show's overnight producer, getting up far before the crack of dawn to put together the day's newscasts with the host and team. Now, he works daylight hours, preparing interviews for the following morning and producing long-term specials and series. Before Marketplace, Alex worked on several national public radio shows produced out of WBUR in Boston. He was both a radio and digital producer with “On Point,” “Here & Now” and “Only a Game.” Alex also worked at The Boston Globe after graduating from Tufts University. Alex's interests outside of work tend to fall into one of two categories: film or soccer. (Come on Arsenal!) He’s always looking for ways to cover the economics of entertainment and sports on the “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Latest from Alex Schroeder

  • Instagram influencers can still fake it till you make it
    BBC

    The world’s longest passenger flight touches down in Sydney. We look at France a year after the Yellow Vest protests. Making big bucks from Instagram selfies isn’t for everyone.

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  • Is the visa process deterring international students?
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    The Fed might be leaving lower-income Americans out of its inflation equation. Colleges could suffer due to the cumbersome process international students face to obtain visas.

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  • The US flag flies over a container ship unloading it's cargo from Asia, at the Port of Long Beach, California on August 1, 2019.
    MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

    Hong Kong enters a recession. Tariffs are taking a toll at our ports. Why inflation figures aren’t jibing with all this news of low unemployment.

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  • “China is the Wakanda of online payments”
    Photo by Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Germany narrowly avoids recession. China is light years ahead of Google when it comes to online payments. Sweden leads the way on closing the gender pay back.

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  • Flight shame gives way to the night train

    Inflation ticked up in October. Fed Chair Jerome Powell appears before Congress. Flygskam, or “flight shaming,” even has airlines promoting greener travel.

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  • Seventeen-year-old Mya Kelly in her high school American government class at Paul Lawurence Dunbar High School.
    Kimberly Adams/Marketplace

    Are big media companies discriminating against content produced by minorities? Tesla’s first European factory will be in Berlin. The EPA wants scientists to share its confidential data on climate change. The U.S. needs to close its “civics empowerment gap.”

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  • Are the BRICS still relevant?
    Photo by Mikhail KlimentyevTASS via Getty Images

    Tesla picks Berlin for its first European factory. Have Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have met their economic potential over the last decade? Who will use Africa’s first high-speed rail?

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  • Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019.
    MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

    SCOTUS takes up Trump’s plan to end DACA. German investors are optimistic about the global economy. It turns out mortgage banking algorithms also discriminate.

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  • Raftsmen help Guatemalans cross the Suchiate towards Mexico, where they buy goods with higher quality and lower prices.
    Rodrigo Cervantes for Marketplace

    More and more Americans can’t afford their medications. Google moves into the medical data business. U.S. immigration policies hit the Mexico-Guatemala border.

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  • Disney Plus might not have a fairy tale outcome in China
    Tang Yanjun/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images

    The House of Mouse joins the global streaming wars, but what works in America won’t necessarily translate abroad. Racing giant Formula One plans to become carbon neutral by 2030. Singapore tests out a flying taxi.

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